Baling-press.



No. 675,439. Patented Juno 4, I91. P. K. DEDEBICK.

BALING PRESS.

(Application filed Nov. 15, 1900.)

(No Model.)

U Stra rss PATENT OFFICE.

PETER K. DEDERICK, OF LOUDONVILLE, NElV YORK.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIEFIOATZON forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,439, dated June 4,1901. Application filed November 15, 1900- Serial No. 36,620. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, PETER K. DEDERIOK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Loudonville, in the county of Albany, State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specifigation, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

This invention relates to improvements in presses designed for balinghay, cotton, or other material susceptible of being compressed and boundinto bales; and the invention relates particularly, although notexclusively, to that type of presses wherein a number of charges arefirst loosely compressed in a bale-chamber and then the whole number ofcharges tightly compressed to form the final bale, this type of pressesbeing known as repeaters.

The invention has for its object, primarily, to provide a powermechanism whereby in repeating or accumulating charges in thebalechamber of the press the traverser may be advanced rapidly, inasmuchas at this time less power is required and during the final compressingoperation advanced slowly, but with correspondingly greater power,whereby a material economy both in time and power is effected, furtherobjects of the invention being to improve the detail construction of thepress, whereby the feeding and retaining of the material in thebale-chamber are facilitated.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation,partly in section, illustrating a vertical press embodying my presentimprovements. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical section of the feed-door andhopper. Fig. 8 is a detail view of a modified form of power mechanism.Fig. 4. is a similar view of another modification. Fig. 5 is a detailofthe hook for use in repeating. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail sections showingretainers for the material being baled.

Like letters of reference in the several figures indicate the sameparts.

In said drawings the letter A indicates the press-frame, "which, asillustrated, is of the vertical type and adapted to contain the usualtoggle-arms and lever B, together with the reciprocatory traverser 0,(shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1,) said traverser being adapted to bereciprocated by the upward thrust of the toggle-arms and lever, so as topush the material being baled in the upper portion of the press orbale-chamber, and from which chamber the completed bale may be removedin any usual or preferred manner-as, for instance, by opening the door Din the side of the chamber. The material to be baled is introd ucedabove the traverser through the feed-opening E, Fig. 2, being fed orthrust by hand into a hopper formed by the wings e at the sides and theinwardly-movable door F at the front. \Vhen said door is pushed inwardly, the material in the hopper will be forced into the pressboXabove the traverser and in position to be pushed up into the balcchamberas said traverser rises.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that instead of pivoting orhinging the door F immediately adjacent to the lower edge of the openingE, as heretofore, I now mount said door on relatively long arms G,pivotally mounted or hinged near the bottom of the press-frame or remotefrom the feed-opening. Thus the door itself is given a bodily movementto and from the feed-opening, and the hopper is correspondinglyincreased in size at the bottom, thereby providing for the reception ofa larger quantity of the material to be baled and at the same timeinsuring the proper positioning of such material in the press-box whenthe feed-door is closed. With this construction it is desirable toemploy a bottom H to the hopper, which bottom should be formedconcentrically with the movement of the door in order to form a tightjoint and prevent squeezing out of any of the material beneath the doorat any point, and in order to prevent the bulging out of the material atthe top of the hopper a downwardly-swinging door H is preferablyemployed, all as illustrated clearly in Fig.2, before referred to, thedoor II being preferably curved to conform to the movement of door F.

In the operation of the press when the material has been forced into thepress-box by the closing of the door F and has been pushed up into thebale-chamber by the traverser it is retained in said bale'chamber bymeans of retainers, which pass in through the side walls of the pressand are adapted to be forced outwardly as the material pushes past them,but which spring inwardly again and prevent the dropping of thematerial. I prefer to employ retainers which have a substantiallystraight in -andout movement, for which purpose said retainers are madein the form of boltsI, having their lower sides beveled or inclinedwhere they project into the press-box, and such bolts I are held inalinement by being pivotally connected with links 2', the links in turnbeing pivotally connected with the press-frame, preferably above theretainers, as shown at 'i.' Obviously if the bolts are guided in theapertures in the side walls of the press but one link is necessary foreach retainer, as illustrated in Fig. 7, but where desired the bolt maybe entirely supported and guided by employing two or more links, as 1'"5 Fig. 6, and the retainers may in each instance be yieldingly heldinwardly by light springs t preferably taking a bearing againstthe'supporting-links. \Vith this arrangement successive charges of thematerial may be forced up into the bale-chamber and a sufficientquantity of material accumulated in said chamber for forming any desiredsize of bale without the necessity of employin g a very long press-boxwith a traverser having a correspondingly long movement. In fact, inorder to form a bale of fair size it is quite necessary to addsuccessive charges of material, because of the impracticability ofemploying a press-box and power mechanism of sufficient length and rangeof movement to enable all of the material to be placed therein at onetime, and hence it is highly desirable to provide a mechanism for movingthe traverser rapidly when the charges of material are being accumulatedin the balingchamber and which shall have the capacity for exertinggreat power in compressing said charges during the final pressingoperation.

The power mechanism ordinarily employed for operating the toggle orpower levers of the press is a rope tackle consisting of a rope orflexible connection which is connected with said power-levers and afterpassing around a suitable series of pulleys is run off to a windingdrumor capstan. The series of pulleys referred to ordinarily consist of afixed series (one or more) at the side of the pressframe and a movableseries (one or more) in or connected with one of the power-levers, andin running the traverser up the whole length of the flexible connectionis put in motion by draft applied to one of its ends, thereby securinggreat power, but a relatively slow movement of the power-levers andtraverser. I11 accordance with my invention now while I utilize thissame system in securing the final pressure on the bale in repeating oraccumulating the charges in the bale-chamber I operate the power-leverswith a direct connection to the winding-drum or capstan, or,

in other words, I cut out the pulley feature in the flexible connectionby making the pulleys which are ordinarily fixed at the side of thepress-frame movable toward and from the press-frame and detachablyconnecting them with the winding drum or capstan, whereby they may bebodily moved and the whole tackle operate as a unit when thewinding-drum or capstan is turned in repeating and whereby they may beallowed to rest in their fixed position during the final pressingoperation.

Referring to said drawings, it will be seen that a pulley K is mountedin one of the power-levers, and a flexible connection L, attached at oneend to a loop or clevislon said power-lever, extends thence around apulley M at the side of the press-frame, thence back around the pulleyK, and thence out to the winding-drum or capstan 0; but the pulley Minstead of being mounted in a fixed portion of the frame A, asheretofore, is now movably mounted, either as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, ina sliding frame P, which may move in right lines on guides Q, toward andfrom the press-frame, or in the ends of links B, Fig. 4, which arepivotally connected at their upper ends near the top of the press-frame,in each instance said pulley M being movable toward and from thepress-frame, but in its innermost position being arrested and heldagainst further in ward movement by the press-frame itself. In the finalpressing operation the strain on the pulley is all inward. Hence itremains in what might be termed a fixed position, and the power operatesas in the ordinary baling-press; but in the repeating operation thepulley M is adapted to be connected so as to'move outwardly in unisonwith the movement of the power-lever, and this maybe accomplished eitherby connecting its frame P with that portion of the flexible connection Lwhich runs adjacent to the pulley on its way to the drum, as by a hookR, adapted to take over an enlargement or stop S on said flexibleconnection, or by a separate flexible connection T, Fig. 3, which may beextended outwardly to the winding-drum or capstan O and be detachablyconnected therewith in any suitable manner, as by a projection IV. Withthis construction when the hook R is down, so as to engage the stop S,or when the flexible connection T is connected with the drum or capstanthe tackle operates as a unit and the power of the capstan is applieddirectly to the power-levers, said levers being moved directly in unisonwith the movement of the drum or capstan, thereby securing a rapidmovement of the traverser, but of course diminishing the power ascompared with theaction of the tackle in the final pressing operation.Having accumulated the desired number of charges in the bale-chamber,the hook B or the flexible connection T is disengaged and the powerapplied from the winding-dru m or capstan through the flexibleconnection and system of pulleys, so as to compress the accumulatedcharges into a halo having the desired solidity.

Obviously any desired number of turns of the flexible connection may bemade about a corresponding number of pulleys at the side of thepress-frame and in or connected with the powerlevers to secure greateror less power, and itis further obvious that with my presentimprovementsin repeating the movement of the traverser will be just as many timesfaster as there are turns in the flexible connection around theaforesaid pulleys, and therefore in the operation of the press a corresponding economy in time and power is effected.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a baling-press, the combination with the press-frame,reciprocatory traverser and power-levers for reciprocating saidtraverser, of a tackle for moving said power-levers, consisting of apulley movable with said levers, a second bodily-movable pulley, aflexible connection passing around said pulleys and means for movingsaid second bodily-movable pulley bodily in unison with the movement ofthe flexible connection, whereby the power may be applied to saidpower-levers by a movement of the tackle as a unit, or by a movement ofthe lever, flexible connection, and pulley mounted on the levers alone;substantially as described.

2. A power mechanism for baling-presses comprising a tackle having apulley moving in unison with the lever, a second movable pulley andmeans for holding it in fixed position or permitting it to move bodilyinunison with the lever, a flexible connection passing around said pulleysand means whereby said tackle may be moved as a unit for repeating or asa tackle for accumulating powerin pressing; substantially as described.

3. A power mechanism for baling-presses embodying the followinginstrumei'it-alities, to wit; a tackle comprising a pulley movable withthe power-levers, an independently-movable pulley, a flexible connectionpassing around said pulleys, a winding-drum for said flexibleconnection, and means whereby the independently-movable pulley may beconnected with the winding-drum for moving said tackle as a unit inrepeating and disconnected from said winding-drum for heavy pressing;substantially as described.

4. In a baling-press, a reciprocatory traverser and power-levers forreciprocating the traverser combined with a tackle embodying abodily-movable pulley independent of the power-levers and movable bodilyto vary the distance between the same and the power-1e vers, a flexibleconnection intermediate the pulley and levers and working around thepulley, and means for moving said pulley bodily to vary the speed andpower; substantially as described.

5. In a baling-press, a reciproeatory traverser and power-levers forreciprocating the traverser, combined with a tackle embodying a flexibleconnection, a pulley carried by the power-levers, an independentbodily-movable pulley and around which pulleys the flexible connectionpasses, a winding-drum for said flexible connection and a detachableconnection between said bodily-movable pulley and the flexibleconnection whereby in repeating said bodily-movable pulley may beconnected with the flexible connection and the tackle moved as a unit;substantially as described.

6. In a bailing-press, the combination with the press frame,reciprocatory traverser, power-lever, winding-drum and flexibleconuection between said winding drum and power-lever, of a pulley bodilymovable toward and from the press-frame and around which the flexibleconnection passes, a supporting-guide for said pulley and a hook andstop for connecting the pulley and flexible connection whereby it may bemoved away from the press-frame in repeating; substantially asdescribed.

7. In a baling-press, the combination with the press frame,reciprocatory traverser, power-lever, winding-drum and pulley-supportingguide connected with the press-frame, of a pulley movable bodily fartherfrom or nearer to the lever and carried by said guide, a flexibleconnection between the windingdrum and power-lever passing and workingaround said bodily-movable pulley to vary the length of the connectionbetween the lever and pulley and means for connecting the pulley anddrum in repeating; substantially as described.

8. In a baling-press the combination with the press-frame having afeed-opening therein, a traverser and power mechanism for reciprocatingsaid traverser, of a door for closing the feed-opening andsupporting-arms for said door hinged to the press-frame near the bottomthereof and remote from the feedopening whereby the door is given abodily movement toward and from thefeedopening; substantially asdescribed.

9. In a paling-press the combination of the press frame, reciprocatorytraverser and power mechanism for reciprocating the traverser, afeed-opening in the side of the press frame at an intermediate point, ahopper surrounding said feed-opening and having a curved bottom, a doorforming the front wall of said hopper and adapted to close thefeedopening when moved inwardly and supporting-arms for said door hingedto the pressframe at a point remote from the bottom of the hopperwhereby the door is given a bodily movement toward and from the feedopening to form a hopper of greater capacity at the bottom;substantially as described.

10; A retainer for baling-presses comprising a bodily-movable bolthaving one of its ends beveled and a pair of supporting-links pivotallyconnected with said bolt at one end ICC IIO

and with the press-frame at the opposite end whereby the bolt is held inits alinement at right angles to the press-frame; substantially asdescribed.

11. In a baiing-press the combination of the press frame reciprocatingtraverser and power mechanism for reciprocating the traverser, afeed-opening in the side of the pressframe at an intermediate point, ahopper sur- 10 rounding said feed-opening, a hinged door Witnesses:

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